1952 Les Mis what even.
I didn’t expect Jean Valjean to have a totally lovely slightly bearish emotionally mature husband called Robert who brings up Cosette with him nor did I know until today that I really wanted this & this is exactly what Valjean needs.
I really didn’t expect Cosette to be so incredibly obviously gay and so heavily not into Marius that she’s actively trying to go to England in order to escape from him.
I didn’t expect her to have an actual girlfriend in the form of delightful OC Cicely who she is persuading into giggly convent trysts.
I didn’t expect Javert to have a magical crimefighting hat that helps him to track Valjean through the sewers in what is in fact an extremely lengthy sequence, like I’m not making a joke about a single shot here I mean that there is actually a hat which Javert follows because it’s better at finding Valjean than he is.
I didn’t expect yet another OC in the form of Valjean’s prison ex Genflou who taught him to read and is prepared to commit perjury for him and still loves him and gives him. so many intense gazes. crying.
I didn’t expect Marius to say “I said the king was a fat pig”
I didn’t expect that Gavroche and Cosette would be best friends who call each other ‘citizen’.
I knew it would be terrible. I didn’t expect that I would LOVE IT.